Artichoke farmers plowing their fields in northern California have reaped a strange harvest: a trove of exotic animal fossils, including camel, mastodon and -- most striking of all -- the first known remains of a Columbian mammoth with strands of its hair s

"Drones are a new tool in archaeologists' toolkits," said Ian Lindsay, an associate professor of anthropology who has been excavating in the South Caucasus region for 15 years. "It's a good alternative to kites, balloons or sitting in the bucket of a cran

Sophisticated drug paraphernalia, complete with a hippy-looking headband, provide evidence that an elite, hallucinogen-using culture flourished at around 500 A.D. in the south-central Andes and lasted there for at least another 600 years

Following an early August announcement of a "rediscovered" find in a Physical Anthropology storage room--a rare, fragile, but largely intact 6,500-year-old human skeleton from the famous Ur excavations in what is now Iraq--the Penn Museum has moved the skel

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Genetically modified crops are a topic of intense debate that have sparked a lot of controversy over the years, fuelled largelyÂ through a lack of understanding and vast amounts of misinformation

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can hurt just as much. Indeed, according to converging evidence reported in a new review in Current Directions in Psychological Science, physical and social pain are processed in some of the same regions.

Dionne Baxter, 24, from Essex was burned by her iPhone as she slept
Was left with a painful five inch burn which later became infected
Fears that she will be unable to breastfeed should she have another child

Forget putting solar panels on your roof--in the near future, you may be generating electricity from windows, skylights, or even your iPhone.
Researchers at Michigan State University have created a transparent photovoltaic material that ...